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Labrang Monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The monastery was founded in 1709 by the first Jamyang Zhépa, Ngawang Tsöndrü.It is Tibetan Buddhism's most important monastery town outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region
Jvari Monastery is a sixth-century Georgian Orthodox monastery near Mtskheta, eastern Georgia. Along with other historic structures of Mtskheta, it is listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO. The name of this monastery translated as the "Monastery of the Cross"
Studenica Monastery is a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery. Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the medieval Serb state, founded the monastery in 1190.
This was from our first dive of 2013. I wish conditions were like this right now. We dove over the weekend and vis. was about 5 feet at the Jetty. It is too big everywhere else.
Waiting for April to buy the new Fantasea housing for my G15....Until then I am a pretty good dive buddy as I will be without camera:)
Jerónimos Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal; it was secularised on 28 December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to the charitable institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa.
The monastery is one of the most prominent examples of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture in Lisbon. It was classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site
This monastery was founded in the ninth century. A very strategically advantageous location.
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These places are great to explore. You can go most anywhere in them. Notice the sod roof behind the walls. It is much larger than it appears at first.
The Monastery of Batalha literally the Monastery of the Battle, is a Dominican convent in the civil parish of Batalha, in the district of Leiria, in central region of Portugal. Originally, and officially known, as the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Victory it was erected in commemoration of the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota, and would serve as the burial church of the 15th-Century Aviz dynasty of Portuguese royals. It is one of the best and original examples of Late Gothic architecture in Portugal, intermingled with the Manueline styleThe convent was built to thank the Virgin Mary for the Portuguese victory over the Castilians in the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385, fulfilling a promise of King John I of Portugal. The battle put an end to the 1383-1385 crisis.
It took over a century to build, starting in 1386 and ending circa 1517, spanning the reign of seven kings. It took the efforts of fifteen architects , but for seven of them the title was no more than an honorary title bestowed on them. The construction required an enormous effort, using extraordinary resources of men and material. New techniques and artistic styles, hitherto unknown in Portugal, were deployed.
Work began in 1386 by the Portuguese architect Afonso Domingues who continued till 1402. He drew up the plan and many of the structures in the church and the cloister are his doing. His style was essentially Rayonnant Gothic, however there are influences from the English Perpendicular Period. There are similarities with the façade of York Minster and with the nave and transept of Canterbury Cathedral.
He was succeeded by Huguet from 1402 to 1438. This architect, who was probably from Catalonian descent, introduced the Flamboyant Gothic style. This is manifest in the main façade, the dome of the square chapter house, the Founder's Chapel, the basic structure of the Imperfect Chapels and the north and east naves of the main cloister. He raised the height of the nave to 32.46 m. By altering the proportions he made the interior of the church even seem narrower. he also completed the transept but he died before he could finish the Imperfect Chapels.
During the reign of Afonso V of Portugal, the Portuguese architect Fernão de Évora continued the construction between 1448 and 1477. He added the Cloister of Afonso V. He was succeeded by the architect Mateus Fernandes the Elder in the period 1480-1515. This master of the Manueline style worked on the portal of the Capelas Imperfeitas. Together with the famous Diogo Boitac he realized the tracery of the arcades in the Claustro Real. Work on the convent continued into the reign of John III of Portugal with the addition of the fine Renaissance tribune (1532) by João de Castillo. The construction came to a halt, when the king decided to put all his efforts in the construction of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon.
The earthquake of 1755 did some damage, but much greater damage was inflicted by the Napoleonic troops of Marshal Masséna, who sacked and burned the complex in 1810 and 1811. When the Dominicans were expelled from the complex in 1834, the church and convent were abandoned and left to fall in ruins.
In 1840, king Ferdinand II of Portugal started a restoration program of the abandoned and ruined convent, saving this jewel of Gothic architecture. The restoration would last till the early years of the 20th century. It was declared a national monument in 1907. In 1980 the monastery was turned into a museum.
The Batalha convent was added in 1983 by UNESCO to its list of World Heritage sites.
Lisbon Portugal Springtime 2014
Thiksay is a village in the Indus Valley, famous for the Thiksay Monastery (Gompa) located at an altitude of 3,600 m (11,800 ft) in the Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is a twelve-story complex and houses many items of Buddhist art such as stupas, statues, thangkas and wall paintings.
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Khotkov Pokrovsky Stavropigialny women's monastery
Variations on a theme «...with a film across Russia»
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Photo taken: 03/10/2016
The Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery, also known as Sungtseling and Guihuasi (Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་, ganden sumtsenling; Chinese: 松赞林寺, pinyin: Sōngzànlín Sì), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery situated 5 kilometres from the city of Zhongdian at elevation 3,380 metres (11,090 ft) in Yunnan province, China. Built in 1679, the monastery is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yunnan province and is sometimes referred to as the Little Potala Palace. Located in the capital of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, it is also the most important monastery in southwest China.
It belongs to the Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelukpa order of the Dalai Lama. The Fifth Dalai Lama's Buddhist visionary zeal established the monastery in Zhongdian, in 1679. Its architecture is a fusion of the Tibetan and Han Chinese. It was extensively damaged in the Cultural Revolution and subsequently rebuilt in 1983; at its peak, the monastery contained accommodation for 2,000 monks; it currently accommodates in its rebuilt structures 700 monks in 200 associated houses.
Because of the popularity of James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon (1933), which introduced Shangri-La and is said have been written on an inspirational theme of "the Tibetan Buddhist Scriptures, where human beings, animals, and nature lived in harmony under the rule of a Tibetan", the Chinese authorities changed the name of Zhongdian County to Shangri-La County in 2001, as the city claims to be the source of inspiration for Hilton's novel. The earlier names were – the Zhongdian (建塘镇 Jiàntáng Zhèn) to the Chinese, and Gyalthang (Standard Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྫོང་) to the Tibetans, of the town which has predominantly Tibetan population. The name of the county's capital town was similarly changed from Jiantang to Shangri-la. The ambiance of the town is distinctly Tibetan with prayer flags fluttering, mountains known by holy names, lamaseries and rocks inscribed in Tibetan language with Buddhist sutras.
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Amarbayasgalant Monastery is one of the three largest Buddhist monastic centers in Mongolia. The monastery complex is located in the Iven Valley near the Selenge River, at the foot of Mount Büren-Khaan in Baruunbüren sum (district) of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia. The nearest town is Erdenet which is about 60 km to the southwest.
Amarbayasgalant was one of the very few monasteries to have partly escaped destruction during the Stalinist purges of 1937, after which only the buildings of the central section remained. Many of the monks were executed by the country's Communist regime and the monastery's artifacts, including thangkas, statues, and manuscripts were looted, although some were hidden until more fortunate times.
Today, only 28 temples remain. Restoration work began in 1988 with funds provided by UNESCO and private sources and some of the new statuary was commissioned in New Delhi, India.
The monastery was endowed in 1153 by the first Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, during the Reconquista. The church was consecrated in 1252. The ground floor of the cloister was added in the late 13th century, endowed by King Dinis I. The 2nd floor of the cloister was added in the early 16th century under Manuel I, although it is far more restrained than the typical Manueline style. The bell towers are an 18th century Baroque addition.
Tawang Monastery, located in Tawang city of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest monastery in India and second largest in the world after the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
The monastery was founded by Merek Lama Lodre Gyamsto in 1680-81 at the behest of the 5th Dalai Lama, who was his contemporary.[2][8][11] When Merek Lama was experiencing difficulties in building the monastery at the chosen location of Tsosum, the ancient name for Tawang, the 5th Dalai Lama issued directives to the people of the area to provide him all help. To fix the perimeter of the Dzong, the Dalai Lama had also given a ball of yarn, the length of which was to form the limit of the monastery.
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The monastery is located near Leh, central Ladakh region at an altitude of 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) in the Indus valley. It is a 12-storey complex and houses more than 100 monks along with many items of Buddhist art such as stupas, statues, thangkas, wall paintings and swords. One of the main points of interest is the Maitreya (future Buddha) Temple which is installed to commemorate the visit of the 14th Dalai Lama to this monastery in 1970.
Gandan Monastery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Most Buddhist Monasteries in Mongolia were destroyed during the communist regime, which lasted until 1990. One of the only to survive was Gandan Monastery, being used as a showcase for visitors. It's official name is Gandantegchinleng Khiid. This name signifies something like Great Place of Complete Joy or Great Way to the Cosmos.
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The Mileševa monastery was founded between 1234 and 1236 by Serbian King Vladislav. The monastery is situated in the valley of the Mileševa river, near Prijepolje. Mileševa is one of the most important Serbian sanctuaries and spiritual centers. In 1236, Vladislav moved the relics of his uncle Saint Sava from Trnovo in Bulgaria, where he died, to Mileševa.
A Carthusian monastery was founded here in 1329. The Carthusians were a strict, praying hermit order who live in community and were founded in France in 1084. EmperorCarthusian´s aim was to reduce the number of contemplative orders that he considered useless to society. So the order was suppressed in 1783.
The old monastery church was then used as a parish church in the 18th century. The present-day St. Martin's Church, built between 1722 and 1730 on the site of the then old monastery church.
Alcobaça Monastery, founded by Portugal's first King, Afonso Henriques, in 1153, is a Mediaeval Roman Catholic Monastery located in the town of Alcobaça, in central Portugal. It is an example of one of the first gothic constructions in Portugal and was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1989.
Well, with the bit of info on the place out of the way, I will get on with describing the photo. I visited this wonderful place of Alcobaça back in June and processed this photo in July but am only getting around to uploading it now. My brother, at the time, was going mad taking panoramas on his iPhone. I was shooting away with my much heavier Nikon D90, that also can't make calls or surf the web. So, in the spirit of sibling rivalry, we challenged one and other to see who could take the better pano. I was convinced I could, even though his results were far from shabby; I was well impressed with the convenience of the iPhone and the good results it was delivering. Plus, he had the wonderful advantage of being able to review the panorama as a whole straight away on the screen, while I had to wait to get back to my computer in Ireland, where Photoshop would do the work.
I took this set of 15 images at around 15:00 in the afternoon and combined them into a panorama later on in Photoshop, whilst tweaking the White Balance, opening up shadows, bringing down highlights - the usual stuff, which, according to my brother, was cheating. Just the benefit of shooting Raw on a DSLR, I think!
So, I bet you're wondering which result was better? Well, I think mine is better, but not by much, and it'd be pretty bad if the iPhone beat a €1,000 SLR. His result was very good though and for it being what essentially was a snapshot, I was well impressed with it.
Comments welcome on the image, but I would prefer no flashing icons please. :)
Thanks,
Conor.
The Monastery of Saint Ivan of Rila, better known as the Rila Monastery (Bulgarian: Рилски манастир, Rilski manastir) (Russian: Рильский Монастырь) is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km (73 mi) south of the capital Sofia in the deep valley of the Rilska River at an elevation of 1,147 m (3,763 ft) above sea level. The monastery is named after its founder, the hermit Ivan of Rila (876 - 946 AD). (Source – Wikipedia).
Prime Mediterranean beachfront, endless possibilities for commercial development. And you can rest assured it'll never happen.
Armenia. A complez built up between the 4th and 12th centuries.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
November 2016
REPKONG - Qinghai Province - Gomari Monastery - China